Psychotherapy Outpatient Clinic commissioned by the judiciary of Trier (PAJu Trier)

What does the PAJu Trier do?

The PAJu Trier offers advice and therapy for sex offenders and is aimed at male and female adults. We understand working with offenders as being victim protection and confront our clients with respect and human dignity. We adopt a clearly judgmental approach regarding the acts they have committed.
The therapy outpatient clinic is integrated into the psycho-social and psychiatric range of care services (e.g. institutions for addiction, debt advice centres, the local health authority socio-psychiatric service) of the region and enjoys good contacts with the judiciary and the police. In addition, specialist knowledge is exchanged with other institutions for outpatient and inpatient treatment of sex offenders throughout Germany and Europe.

The therapy team consists of a Psychological Psychotherapist and a graduate Psychologist, who work closely together on case work. Offence related psychotherapy and group therapy, crisis intervention and information discussions with clients and their relatives are also offered.

Clients are accepted according to predefined priorities whereby sex offenders released from prison with pre-treatment therapy (in a social therapy institution or compulsory institution) are treated as a priority. In addition treatment also requires that the clients are emotionally, verbally and cognitively in a position to face up to their offending behaviour themselves and are ready to accept the conditional non-disclosure requirement of the therapy team. This is required because therapy work with sex offenders differs from classic psychotherapy, amongst other things due to undertaking control tasks in the context of cooperation with the police, probationary service and judicial authorities. On conclusion of treatment the PAJu produces a report for the referring body with a statement on the client’s development during the course of treatment and their status upon conclusion of treatment– including the risk assessment made at this time.

Therapeutic Concept

The primary target of the therapy work is the avoidance of relapses and is divided into two focal areas with different treatment targets:

The offence related work includes the following treatment targets

• Accepting responsibility for one’s own delinquent actions
• Removal of denial strategies and  trivialisation
• Development of adequate conflict management and relapse avoidance strategies
• Awakening of victim empathy and awareness of the self-harming aspects of offending behaviour
• Confronting the cycle of offending and awareness  of the course and dynamics of the acts committed
• Acquiring the ability to control impulses
• Assessing or dealing with risk situations

Amongst other things, personality-oriented work includes the following targets

• Communication and improvement of relapse-preventing skills
• Acknowledging an individual’s own needs and desires as well as training in social skills for appropriate expression and execution
• Communication of knowledge an individual’s  own psychic dysfunction and acquiring management strategies
• Working on individual life biographies

Costs

Treatment in the Psychotherapy Outpatient Clinic commissioned by the judiciary of Trier is free of charge.

Contact

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